OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy & Administration is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID ‐19 and care homes in England: What happened and why?	64
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to theCOVID‐19 crisis	52
The next generation EU : An analysis of the dimensions of conflict behind the deal	48
Punitive benefit sanctions, welfare conditionality, and the social abuse of unemployed people in Britain: Transforming claimants into offenders?	48
Social policy responses to COVID ‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes	44
COVID‐19, the Great Recession and social policy: Is this time different?	38
Nordic welfare states—still standing or changed by the COVID ‐19 crisis?	34
The unequal distribution of administrative burden: A framework and an illustrative case study for understanding variation in people's experience of burdens	33
Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems	33
How social networks affect policy implementation: An analysis of street‐level bureaucrats' performance regarding a health policy	32
Governing new authoritarianism: Populism, nationalism and radical welfare reforms in Hungary and Poland	30
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe	30
The COVID ‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states	30
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID ‐19 pandemic	30
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview	28
Making welfare conditional: A street‐level perspective	27
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to COVID ‐19 in the UK and Ireland	27
Work, welfare, and wellbeing: The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK	26
Digital coping: How frontline workers cope with digital service encounters	25
The causes of welfare state expansion in democraticmiddle‐incomecountries: A literature review	24
Extending working lives: How policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers	22
Intensity, moderation, and the pressures of expectation: Calculation and coercion in the street‐level practice of welfare conditionality	22
Family policy and women's employment outcomes in 45 high‐income countries: A systematic qualitative review of 238 comparative and national studies	21
In the eye of the storm … again ! Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Southern Europe	20
Collective citizenship: From citizenship and mental health to citizenship and solidarity	18

The disembedded digital economy: Social protection for new economy employment in China	16
The impacts of housing factors on deprivation in a world city: The case of Hong Kong	16
We have our dignity, yeah? Scrutiny under suspicion: Experiences of welfare conditionality in the Irish social protection system	15
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development	15
Withstanding the plague: Institutional resilience of the East Asian welfare state	15
Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology	13
Relational ethics as a cultural constraint on fathers' parental leave in a Confucian welfare state, South Korea	13
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID	12
Frontline implementation of welfare conditionality in Norway: A maternalistic practice	12
Decent work for sustainable development inpost‐crisisNepal: Social policy challenges and a way forward	11
State‐NGOsrelationship in the context of China contracting out social services	11
Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non‐take‐up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria	11
Changing the healthcare financing paradigm: Domestic actors and international organizations in the agenda setting for diffusion of social health insurance in post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe	10
Informal social protection: A conceptual synthesis	10
Contextualised resistance: The mediating power of paradigmatic frameworks	10
Networks, case managers, and the job‐search experiences of unemployed people	10
The state of the German social insurance state: Reform and resilience	9
Poverty affects access to regular source of primary care among the general population in Hong Kong	9
Pathways to gender equality: A configurational analysis of childcare instruments and outcomes in 21 European countries	9
Addressing loneliness and social isolation amongst elderly people through local co‐production in Japan	9
Labour market liberalization and the rise of dualism in Europe as the interplay between governments, trade unions and the economy	9
Choice and control in social care: Experiences of older self‐funders in England	9
Frontline managers' perceptions and justifications of behavioural conditionality	9
Dual conditionality in welfare and housing for lone parents in Ireland: Change and continuity?	9
Penal and welfare conditionality: Discipline or degradation?	9
Managing precarity: Food bank use by low‐income women workers in a changing welfare regime	8
Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe	8
Motivating the unemployed: A full‐range model of motivational strategies that caseworkers use to activate clients	8
A mechanism‐based approach to the comparison of national pension systems in Vietnam and Sri Lanka	8
Reducing unemployment? Examining the interplay between active labour market policies	8
Towards a balanced multiculturalism? Immigrant integration policies and immigrant children's educational performance	8
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south	7
Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe	7
Child safety in policy: Who is being kept safe and from what?	7
Class politics in the sandbox? An analysis of the socio‐economic determinants of preferences towards public spending and parental fees for childcare	7
Research approaches to networked employment services: A systematic review	7
Unemployment services for newly arrived migrants in Sweden: The privatization and rebureaucratization of the introduction programme	7
Linking macro‐level mechanisms to street‐level accountability practices. A cross‐national case study of street‐level accountability of social workers in government funded homeless shelters	7
When policy entrepreneurs fail: Explaining the failure of long‐term care reforms in Poland	7
Market stewardship of quasi‐markets by street level bureaucrats: The role of local area coordinators in the Australian personalisation system	7
Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic	7
Compensation or competition: Bias in immigrants' access to active labour market measures	6
Punitive welfare reform and claimant mental health: The impact of benefit sanctions on anxiety and depression	6
Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, and post‐war welfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France	6
Conceptualising dignity in the context of social security: Bottom‐up and top‐down perspectives	6
Employers' perspectives on benefit conditionality in the UK and Denmark	6
Measuring and framing support for universal basic income	6
Do you feel like an insider? Job security and preferences for Flexibilization across Europe	6
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients	6
Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?	6

Settler colonialism in Australia and the cashless debit card	6
Public income transfers and wealth accumulation at the bottom: Within and between country differences in Canada and the United States	5
Politicalized empowered learning and complex policy implementation: Targeted poverty alleviation in China's county governments	5
No activation without reconciliation? The interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inac	5
“I don't know what to do—Could it be cultural?” The operationalization of cultural sensitivity among street‐level workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	5
Social policy and embedded evaluation: Assessing the impact of a food insecurity project in the United Kingdom	5
Home care development in Korea and Germany: The interplay of long‐term care and professionalization policies	5
‘Nearly gave up on it to be honest’ : Utilisation of individualised budgets by people with psychosocial disability within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme	5
Introduction to the Special Edition	5
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below	5
Zooming in on labor market cooperation: A study of a failed project to support unemployed young people	5
Children's and adults' perceptions of child necessities in Hong Kong	5
Social capital and the impact of the recent economic crisis: Comparing the effects of economic and fiscal policy developments	5
Fifty years of welfare state generosity	5
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security	5
Affects of policy design: The case of young carers in the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014	5
Evaluating social investment in disability policy	5
Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s	5
A qualitative study of the practices and experiences of staff in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation partnerships in three English coastal towns	5
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective	5
Between affordable welfare and affordable food: Internationalized food subsidy reforms in Egypt and Tunisia	5
Integrating development aid into social policy: Lessons on cooperation and its challenges learned from the example of health care in Kyrgyzstan	4
Individual need and societal claims: Challenging the understanding of universalism versus selectivism in social policy	4
Hybridization in China's elder care service provision	4
Citizen‐agency versus state‐agency at the frontline in prisons and probation services: A systematic literature review	4
One new policy: A variety of applications—The implementation processes of a new mental health policy in Sweden	4
Implementation of individual placement and support in a first‐episode psychosis unit: A new way of working	4
Equity versus equality: Discourses and practices within decentralizedwelfare‐to‐workprograms in California	4
Varieties of liberalism: A comparative analysis of family policy and poverty outcomes across the 50 United States	4
Sick but at work: Graded sick leave in a comparative perspective	4
Integrated care and the ‘agentification’ of the English National Health Service	4
The growth of private home care providers in Europe : The case of Ireland	4
Adult and child deprivation in Hong Kong	4
Material, stigmatic, and agentic dimensions in the experience of claiming disability benefits: The Israeli case	4
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms	4
Dealing with the wicked issue of child poverty: Inter‐organizational networks as forums for collective debate and reflection	3
The guaranteed minimum income in Portugal: A universal safety net under political and financial pressure	3
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency	3
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	3
From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations	3
Why do unemployed people avoid participation in training? An experiment for policy making	3
The long and short of it: The temporal significance of wealth and income	3
Impression management in the market for residential care for children and youth in Sweden	3
Out of the wilderness? The coming back of the debate on minimum income in Spain and the Great Recession	3
From industrial restructuring to the financial crisis: Mainstream nationalism and minimum income in the Basque Country	3
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?	3
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	3
Programme form and service user well‐being: Linking theory and evidence	3
How does self‐employment affect pension income? A comparative analysis of European welfare states	3
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	3
Experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum in Australia: A review of published and “grey” literature	3
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction	3
Education as social policy: New tensions in maturing knowledge economies	3
Health care in post‐crisis South Europe: Inequalities in access and reform trajectories	3
Bureaucratic conflict between transnational actor coalitions: The diffusion of British National Vocational Qualifications to China	3
The power of ideas in policymaking processes: The role of institutionalised knowledge production in state bureaucracies	3
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform	3